Marie-Christine Ferland

In SPQR, world-renowned classicist Mary Beard narrates the unprecedented rise of a civilization that even 2,000 years later still shapes many of our most fundamental assumptions about power, citizenship, responsibility, political violence, empire, luxury, and beauty.

Every generation, a journalist has looked deep into the heart of the nuclear military establishment: the technologies, the safeguards, the plans, and the risks. These investigations are vital to how we understand the world we really live in—where one nuclear missile will beget one in return, and where the choreography of the world’s end requires massive decisions made on seconds’ notice with information that is only as good as the intelligence we have. Pulitzer Prize finalist Annie Jacobsen’s Nuclear War: A Scenario explores this ticking-clock scenario.

Une femme extraordinaire relate la chute libre d’une jeune trentenaire à qui tout réussit. Une fille qui en apparence a tout pour elle, mais qui en coulisses se désintègre tranquillement. Une fille qui n’a jamais eu le droit d’échouer. Une femme extraordinaire, c’est aussi l’espoir de se sortir d’une dépression, cheveu sur une soupe qui n’était pas censée avoir ce goût-là.